Alharbi, S. S., Sazak, Ç., Nelson, C. J. and Obara, B. (2018) Curvilinear Structure Enhancement by Multiscale Top-Hat Tensor in 2D/3D Images. In: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Madrid, Spain, 3-6 Dec 2018, ISBN 9781538654880 (doi: 10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621329)
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Abstract
A wide range of biomedical applications require enhancement, detection, quantification and modelling of curvilinear structures in 2D and 3D images. Curvilinear structure enhancement is a crucial step for further analysis, but many of the enhancement approaches still suffer from contrast variations and noise. This can be addressed using a multiscale approach that produces a better quality enhancement for low contrast and noisy images compared with a single-scale approach in a wide range of biomedical images. Here, we propose the Multiscale Top-Hat Tensor (MTHT) approach, which combines multiscale morphological filtering with a local tensor representation of curvilinear structures in 2D and 3D images. The proposed approach is validated on synthetic and real data, and is also compared to the state-of-the-art approaches. Our results show that the proposed approach achieves high-quality curvilinear structure enhancement in synthetic examples and in a wide range of 2D and 3D images.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | No |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Nelson, Dr Chas |
| Authors: | Alharbi, S. S., Sazak, Ç., Nelson, C. J., and Obara, B. |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy |
| ISBN: | 9781538654880 |
| Published Online: | 24 January 2019 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2018 IEEE |
| First Published: | First published in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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